On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 09:27:24AM -0500, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
Following up to my own, I don't know what I missed last time, but I just
> tried it again and it left files of 0 length as advertised:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 qmailq qmail 0 Jan 4 09:15 ./mess/10/224720
>
> But how many would it take for DoS? Use up all the inodes? Still no
> mail would be lost AFAICT.
>
I think you did not do ^Z.
In any case, what is interesting is that qmail-queue exits with 143: I tried
this under X
in one xterm, I do
qmail-queue
(I do not stop it) in the other I kill this new qmail-queue process. In the
first xterm I get
echo $?
143
Nevertheless, the 0 length file appears in the queue. Here is a shellscript
to automate the whole thing
while true; do
qmail-queue&
killall qmail-queue
done
This should not stop till the inodes are all used up.
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
